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Thursday, August 11, 2022

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A Murder is Announced continues the genius of Miss Marple and her unique insight into the human condition!  As we all come up for air in Manhattan after a vicious heat wave, it's time to dive into a book to read at the beach, the pool or just under your favorite tree to relax and indulge and just THINK!  You know you've got all the little gray cells already from reading all of Poirot along with us.  

In this work, murder starts off socially!  It's literally a game...but then it turns out to be quite NOT a game!  It reminded us a lot of Halloween Party...not to give it away but read that along with this or perhaps reread that to refresh your memory!

As you deduce clues along with Marple we'd suggest you particularly pay attention to how the five senses are used, especially sound.  Families and familial connections, legacies and wills are all central to what is running the show of the plot here.

And there is even more English that if you are a daft American like Peachy, you have yet to learn.  If someone is a tartar it means they are quite frightening!  And we believe Pip and Emma mean P.M. as opposed to A.M..

We are upset there is no formal recipe for Delicious Death, however, we see this recipe online!  And if we were going to be dining on literature, you know it would be Agatha Christie.  A last warning: be careful around scarves!

A Murder is Announced is Recommended by Whom You Know!

Previously on Whom You Know, we have raved about Agatha:

ALL OF HERCULE POIROT:

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Murder on the Links

Poirot Investigates

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The Big Four

The Mystery of the Blue Train

Peril at End House

Lord Edgware Dies

Murder on the Orient Express

Three Act Tragedy

and we took a break from only him and did him with others in Midwinter Murder

and returned to only him with Death in the Clouds

The ABC Murders

Murder in Mesopotamia

Cards on the Table


Murder in the Mews

Dumb Witness

Death on the Nile

Appointment with Death

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Sad Cypress

One Two Buckle My Shoe

Evil Under the Sun

Five Little Pigs

The Hollow

The Labors of Hercules

Taken at the Flood

The Under Dog and Other Stories

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

After the Funeral

Hickory Dickory Dock

Dead Man's Folly

Cat Among the Pigeons

The Clocks

Third Girl

Halloween Party

Elephants Can Remember

Curtain Poirot's Last Case

MISS MARPLE:

The Murder at the Vicarage:







About the Author
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only in the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She is the author of eighty crime novels and short-story collections, around thirty plays, two memoirs, and six novels written under the name Mary Westmacott.

She first tried her hand at detective fiction while working in a hospital dispensary during World War I, creating the now-legendary Hercule Prior with her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. In 1930, Miss Jane Marple made her first full-length novel appearance in The Murder at the Vicarage, quickly becoming another beloved and enduring character to rival Poirot's popularity. Additional series characters include the husband-and wife crime-fighting team of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, private investigator Parker Pyne, and Scotland Yard detectives Superintendent Battle and Inspector Japp.


Many of Christie's novels and short stories were adapted into plays, films, and television series. The Mousetrap opened in 1952 and is the longest running play in history. Academy Award-nominated actor and director Kenneth Branagh helmed the acclaimed major motion picture Murder on the Orient Express in 2017 and its sequel, Death on the Nile, starring in both films as the Belgian detective. On the small screen Poirot has been most memorably portrayed by David Suchet, and Miss Marple by Joan Hickson and subsequently Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie.

Christie was first married to Archibald Christie and then to archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, whom she accompanied on expeditions to countries that would also serve as the settings for many of her novels. In 1971 she achieved one of Britain's highest honors when she was made a Dame of the British Empire. She died in 1976 at the age of eighty-five. The one-hundred-year anniversary of Agatha Christie stories and the debut of Hercule Poirot was celebrated around the world in 2020. Whom You Know will never stop celebrating it!


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